Many patients who want to have fat removed from their bodies can be confused by the different types of liposuction available today. Usually, people are put off by the vigorous procedures seen on YouTube, or by the tales of horrendous bruising, swelling and pain which can last months. These are generally true for traditional liposuction methods performed under general anaesthesia for a variety of reasons:  Read more... (746 words, estimated 2:59 mins reading time)

1. Because the patients are asleep, surgeons can be more aggressive and work faster, minimising the duration of the general anaesthesia but at the same time increasing the collateral damage to the surrounding tissues and increasing the amount of blood loss. Medical studies have shown that there can be 7 times more blood loss with traditional liposuction when compared to 3rd generation ultrasound-assisted-liposuction (eg VASER Liposelection). However, when having liposuction under GA, one treatment is all that is required as generally you could treat multiple areas.